Winn will be the only Black baseball player for the Cardinals when they host the Giants as the home team in Thursday's 'Tribute to the Negro Leagues' baseball game at Rickwood Field.
The threads will serve as a tribute to the San Francisco Sea Lions and St. Louis Stars Negro Leagues teamsMaysn Winn hasn’t played a baseball game in the State of Alabama since he was 8 or 9 years old.
Winn’s return has more meaning this time around, underscored as the Cardinals player who recently posed in a St. Louis Stars uniform that his teammates will wear during their home baseball game Thursday against the San Francisco Giants at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham. The game is marketed as “A Tribute to the Negro Leagues,” and will honor Willie Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons who once played at Rickwood, considered the oldest professional baseball park in the United States.
At the start of the season, the trio -- who were playing together in St. Louis -- represented a rarity at a time when the number of Black baseball players in MLB are dwindling. The Cardinals were MLB’s lone team to have three everyday Black position players under the age of 25 this season,. The last time a team had three Black position players 23 or younger in its opening-day lineup was the 2007 Tampa Bay Rays.
Winn, who made his Major League debut last August, said Luckett got to meet Cardinals great and current coach Willie McGee last year.
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